Pod vs Puddle - What's the difference?
pod | puddle |
(botany) a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers)
a small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
To bear or produce pods
To remove peas from their case.
To swell or fill.
A small pool of water, usually on a path or road.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 90:
A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
To form a puddle.
To play or splash in a puddle.
To process iron by means of puddling.
To line a canal with puddle (clay).
To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between pod and puddle
is that pod is a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers while puddle is a small pool of water, usually on a path or road.As verbs the difference between pod and puddle
is that pod is to bear or produce pods while puddle is to form a puddle.As an initialism POD
is print on demand.pod
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)- (Tusser)
Derived terms
* peapod * seedpodSynonyms
* (sense) capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, vesselVerb
(podd)Etymology 2
From a special use of Etymology 1. See above.Synonyms
gampuddle
English
Noun
(en noun)- And fast beside a little brooke did pas / Of muddie water, that like puddle stank […].
- searching their habitations for water, we could fill but three barricoes, and that such puddle , that never till then we ever knew the want of good water.
Verb
(puddl)- Some unhatched practice / Hath puddled his clear spirit.
